snakeman

I had a standard T3 in .243 chambered to 6br..my concern was the same as yours and took the chance after calling Australia and speaking with Dave at watersrifleman.com .. Since purchasing it the waters rileman magazine has worked flawlessly for the past two years, with all bullet weights and most importantly, at whatever depth they are seated. Had mine from riflemags.co.uk ..It was a bit pricey but it's a top quality piece of kit and machined beautiful. No fettling or smithing was needed. Hope this helps ATB

gunner As an alternative and depending at what distance you're shooting the obvious choice for me would be 107smk. Although, I found shooting them at a short distance, in my case 100yds, they wouldn't group consistently and were about as much use as a Redding lock ring. .. However, at 300yds they came good delivering a 2.5in group. At 300yds I thought this was excellent results. My previous data shows that was out of my old .243, 24in barrel and 40.5g of Ramshot Hunter..(wouldn't use Hunter again..no throat in barrel left..but definitely the 107smk as an alternative ATB

Like this? https://www.jamerllc.com/#!/Oryx-and-XRS-MDT-Chassis-Standard-Bag-Rider/p/470091964/category=0

Makes me wonder what the ex thought was in the box,.. that shape.....😜 Good luck with the swap

Just tell us the answers Pops 👍

I guess this is what seems to be a manufacturing anomaly and reading (in hindsight) the many user experiences I'm not the only one who's displeased. What is disappointing is Redding don't view this as a fault, but place the onus on the end user thereby implying it's not being installed/used correctly. I think Redding should consider addressing this issue because after all, the consumer is not lying and is not paying peanuts for these tools. 'Once-bitten-twice-shy'....won't be buying anything Redding again simply because I'll never know if it'll work until I try it?...I dont buy a car and wonder if I'm going to be able to drive it - same principle applies

Thanks for the advice guys Richiww, I saw that on their website too - If you have further questions, please feel free to contact our tech line (607) 753-3331 .... - I don't have any questions per-se for Redding Tech, but I do have a comment - "go back to the drawing-board, it does not work in the way that it should, end-of, and absolutely nothing will convince me otherwise. They should come with a warning akin to, 'buyer beware, the lock rings supplied with this die are for aesthetic purposes only - in the unlikely event the lock-ring will glide smoothly across the threads count yourself as one fortunate son-of-a-bitch." The two lock-rings I had were not fit for purpose and I'm surpsrised because they're not the cheapest of dies - should have done my research because now, after the 'barn-door-has-been-closed', I note many other people had issues with these things - should have stuck with Forster in the first place Just had a test of the RCBS lock rings and they work a treat! The Redding 'ring's are now on our curtain rail Thanks for the input all 👍

No change of press. A new set of dies..and what a load-of-b@£#@*&s these lock rings are..never again!!

Yeah I got the Forster rings on a different cartridge and they thread faultlessly. Seems a bit of a rip-off that Redding can't offer the same...just thought there might be a fix for the Redding's.. Cheers

What do people use to 'free-up' the lock rings on Redding dies to make them rotate smoothly?.. Mine keep 'binding' like f#** to the point I dread when I have to adjust them. This is a nightmare when trying to set them to 1/1000" ..The threads are clean on both the rings and the dies. Tried using a spot of lithium grease and this did not solve the 'binding'..

Both 140 and 150 in abundance around my neck o' woods

No it's not - N140 works perfectly well, and damn accurately with the 107 SMK...as well as with 103 eld-x....at least in my rifle Try both powders, and test ATB

Hmmm, not familiar with Creed cartridge....but for 90g and above bullet weight I use N140 in the BR....If I were you I wouldn't faf around swapping and changing bullets just yet, especially if you have a decent supply of them - persevere, but try N140 instead of 150 .... What pissed me off about it is my group with the 103g ELD-X only came together after 2 boxes of load development, thereby I believed I had forked out hard earned cash for a bullet that I thought wasn't going to work, (whereas I can usually find the node in half a box) - not so with the ELD-X 😟...I bought them only because I couldn't get hold of the 95g SMK It took a while to get there, 230 odd rounds or so, and playing with seating-depth - so yes, I did find the ELD-X finicky, extremely so - no pun intended Pointless me listing the actual seating-depth etc...but, my charge in a 6BR is - 27.2g of N140 Persevere, and give the barrel (and yourself) a chance ATB

Below is a x 5 group @ 130yds with a 103g ELD-X out of a 1/8" twist 6BR, prone shot - no problems with stability.....what cartridge you using?

'in recent times'?..as such, no....but used this outfit back 2018 and indeed it was 'simple' - excellent service on their 'live chat service' option. I purchased dies and they arrived in under 2 weeks......It would depend on what trying to have shipped, I would think - but no problem buying dies ATB